Cats + grass

When we attended my friend Olivia's birthday she gave us a little planter with grass seed in it and I have been watching it grow into a nice pile of grass. The other day I noticed that it was getting quite long and so mummy decided it was time we fed it to Sassy our cat. She really likes to eat grass, and it's suppossed to be quite good for you so I thought hey if cats can do it why can't little boys? The result as depicted by the pictures below......

Mummy was just thankful that I didn't wake up in the middle of the night barfing up the grass like Sassy did!

A Bicycle built for one

So yesterday was a really good day. I went to swimming lessons and listened really well and then afterwards mummy and I stayed to swim. I showed mummy how well I can jump into the water, how I can float on my tummy with my head in the water and I even showed her how i can swim underwater. Yup it was my first time where I actually swam by kicking my feet and arms and my head was under the water for a really long time. I think I'm getting really good at this swimming stuff.

After swimming we had a few errands to run cause this weekend is Easter so we went to get some flowers and such. I was pretty good in the flower store and mummy only had to threaten to leave me just once (I wanted to be a train on the tracks). Then mummy told me that we were going to look for a treat at another store, I got really excited but she wouldn't tell me what it was. On the way to the other store I fell asleep so when we got to where the treat was I was asleep and mummy had to carry me in. I only woke up when she said "Jacob wake up and try out these bikes to see which one fits you", and when I opened my eyes I was surrounded by lots of bikes. I tried 3 different sizes and the man said the bigger one was just the right size for me. I got to choose between a green bike and a red one and I picked the bright red one and then mummy let me pick a red "Cadana Flag" bell and some spoke balls.

I got to ride my new bike at Nona's house on the patio and impressed her and mummy with how well I can ride. My bike has 4 wheels and I can stop by pushing my pedals back. It's just like mummy and daddys bikes and mummy told me that when we go for rides that I can now pedal my own bike. I can't wait to hit the open trails!

Things that stop my parents dead!

So I have been known to shock and bewilder my parents but I also have the ability to amaze and challenge them. For example the other day while we were all outside, daddy helped me take a leak in the great outdoors. A little bit latter while my parents were busy I had to go to the bathroom again so I dropped my drawers and stood there (cause that's what boys can do). Well my parents look up to see me not peeing but pooping on the grass with the turds falling on the lawn and my pants and all they could do was laugh cause at least I didn't mess my pants.

Then this morning while driving with mummy she mentions (under her breath) about people who don't have enough brains to walk single file on the road and make the cars drive on blind corners to go around them. Of course what I thought she was talking about was the "idiot driver" in front of us. So I told her to catch up to the idiot driver so we could shoot her and she could get a flat. Now mummy was already a bit miffed at my behaviour at the pool this morning so she didn't bother to comment or correct me.

So see there are days that I can make my parents scratch their heads and wonder if I am an alien sent here to earth to drive them to drink!

Spring Break

Last week was Spring break and that meant I had no more school, swimming lessons or skating lessons. I was free to do whatever i wanted (or at least what mummy and daddy let me get away with). Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate too much with a lot of outdoor plans but I did manage to get in a few activities with friends and with mummy & daddy.

Here I am up at Cultus Lake hanging out with my friends and floating my boat. It was not quite swimming weather or even shorts weather but we still had fun.

Then Mummy, daddy and I headed up to a place called Bridal Falls where there was lots of fun places to explore.

Finally we got some nice weather and I got to go outside and play in my playground and help mummy and daddy with some stuff around the house. I even showed off my driving skills on my tractor.

Learning to swim

I have finally gotten to the age where I can take lessons by myself and here are a few things that I have been learning.

When Daddy asked how my first lesson went and what I learned, I replied, "I peed in the pool"!

Now, I know that is not something they teach you but it was important. Some of the real things that my teacher Derick has been teaching me are - sticking my face in the water, jumpingin without hanging on to hands, kicking my legs and feet and splashing everyone in sight, blowing big bubbles and floating on my back. I am getting better each lesson and who knows maybe by the end of the lessons I will be able to hold that pee!

Some things

So lately mummy and daddy have seen or heard me do some things that just either make them laugh or shake their heads. Here are a few that made their days

Daddy brought me home the night of Grampas birthday and he asked me what we bought Grumpa - " I said spenders and a hat", Daddy asked what was special about today? " I say it's Wednesday!" Daddy says why did we get Grampa a present and I say "cause I love him".

Mummy & I were at London Drugs and while mummy was paying for her stuff I was rearranging the candy (as I like to do). When it was time to go mummy called to me and I come around the corner with a Kinder surprise egg open and a bite taken out of it. She said I was naughty and that I shouldn't have done that to which I reply "I wanted some chocolate"!

The other morning daddy was sweeping up stuff from under the pantry and I look under and said in the correct context "Get the F***king thing out of there"! Mummy's note- Before you all think that it was me who taught him this language while driving I beg to say that I use the word "freaking"!

A Star is born

Well, my day of being a skating star has come and gone and I must say that I was absolutely wonderful. I got to skate 2 shows and show my grandparents and daddy all my skating skills. And because not everyone got to come and watch me, daddy videotaped my performance in the evening so that I could share it with my family and friends. So sit back and watch as a star is born.

My little Elephant

I get to be an elephant! Mummy told me that next week I get to dress up in the elephant costume that Auntie Kim made me and go skate to music with all the other kids in my skating class. This event is called the annual skating carnival and apparently everyone who skates gets to dress up and skate, while people sit in the bleachers and clap hands and take videos.

Mummy said that me and the kids in my class are skating to Lion King so we all get to dress up as animals. I told mummy that I wanted to be an elephant and then Auntie Kim made me the coolest costume with a trunk, tusks and big floppy ears.

I'm looking forward to this carnival, but mummy has some ideas as to how I might react to skating in the dark while being followed by lights. Either way, I'm sure that I'll be the cutest elephant out there doing his own thing!

My fort

Sometimes during the day when we don't get a chance to go outside or it's too cold or yucky, mummy and I do some other stuff. Sometimes we paint or draw or play toys and sometimes we make a really cool fort on my bed. Mummy gets out all the old baby blankets and pushes the chair over and clips the blankets together with clothespins. Then we climb inside and have pretend play with my phones or cars or whatever.

I think my mum makes cool forts!

Taking some classes

So now that I'm 3 I get to do things that 2 yr olds can't do. One of those things is I get to take skating classes. Mummy registered me in her skating class and every Thursday, daddy takes me to the rink where I skate on the ice with 20 other kids and we are all expected to listen to mummy and the other 2 teachers (Dennis & Melissa). Now this is kinda a new concept to me cause even though I go skating with mummy once a week and she teaches me stuff, I never had so many other little kids like me on the ice listening to mummy too. I'm doing really well with the skating part but I sometimes have a difficult time with the listening part so I tend to wander off and chat with the other kids, or pretend that I'm a fish and try to swim on the ice or (don't tell mummy)I poke holes in the ice. Now you would think with that many kids on the ice mummy wouldn't see me when I'm not listening but she's really good at keeping all the kids in line and tells all of us "there will be no candies" if we don't listen. I think she means it!

Now that I'm 3 I also get to go to "school "and "not just walk my cousin to school and check out her class school". Mummy and I went to 2 different schools and found the one that we like best. Now this doesn't seem like the same class that my cousin Meagen goes too cause for one thing there are toys everywhere and they even have trains! Plus we get to draw, paint, sing songs, play in sandboxes inside, have snack time, gym time and I hear we even get Library time. The only thing that seems the same as my cousins class is the sitting in the circle and listening to a teacher thing. But that doesn't seem that hard cause she has fun things for us to do like help her with the stickies and she reads stories to us. Best of all, mummy gets to play in the class too and some of my friends even go to the classes with their mummy's too.

This has been a pretty fun month so far and mummy tells me that i get to start my swimming lessons next week too. I think being 3 is going to be "cool".

I'm a big kid now!"

For the last couple weeks, mummy has been getting me to go potty more and to make it even more exciting she has bought me my very own "daddy underwears". I have been using the potty seat for at least 6 months now everymorning, evening and at nap time when I napped but I have gradually been going more often and then I learned how to not poop in my pull-ups but instead ask to go poop. Well now I have graduated to full fledged "big boy" because ever since mummy got rid of my pull-ups and I started to wear my daddy underwears I have been going pee and poop on the potty. What's even better is that I only had 3 days of accidents till I learned that when you pee in you underwears it dribbles down your legs and into your socks and sometimes when you are squating over your train tracks it gets them wet too! Now I am able to go to the bathroom all by myself and wipe my bum and shake the pee-pees off and pull up and down my clothes and as the song says "I'm a big kid now!" I have even mastered 5 nights of night time sleeps without being wet in the morning, though when asked by Grandma today if I have a potty upstairs, I informed her that "I don't have a pot to pee in".

Mummy and daddy are very excited for me and excited not to have to buy anymore diapers or pull-ups. YAY!

Toot Toot- I'm 3 years old!

Whoo hoo after mummy and daddy telling me that I had so many night sleeps till my birthday, it is finally here. This morning I woke up to see 10 Thomas balloons in my kitchen and one of them was a big train.

Then mummy and I went swimming with my friend Carson and my cousins.

That was lots of fun, but I really wanted that Thomas cake that Grandma made me, so off we went home to get the party started.

The house quickly filled up with family and friends and after making my intentions known ( I stuck my fingers in the cake), we lit the candles and everyone sang the song I have been waiting to hear. After filling my face with cake and ice-cream, I was anxious to start tearing off the wrapping paper of some really big presents. I got some really great things like a super big dump truck, a whole wack of Thomas trains tracks, crane, bridges, trees and trains, a birthday train, a hummer, a shirt, some money, a Whorton hears a Who movie, a cars set and some books. I now have enough trains and tracks that I could open my own store.

I had a really great day playing with all my new stuff and I didn't have to give my soother away yet! (we tried but he's just not ready to part with his night time buddy - apparentally he's worried his mouth will get cold :( )

I am already planning my next birthday and am hoping it comes soon cause I really like this cake and present fun.

Christmas and New Year's celebrations

The last couple weeks have been very exciting with 2 fun holidays and all the snow. Mummy and daddy have been telling me the importance of being extra good so that Santa would bring me some nice gifts and not rocks. Mummy even threatened that some of the presents that I was shaking were rocks. So on Christmas morning when I opened up Thomas trains I mentioned to mummy that they were not rocks. Santa even brought me Thomas trains too but not Proteus (I got that on Boxing day from my grandparents). In total I got 16 Thomas trains and lots of track to play with, some new tractors, a garbage truck and my very own camera, some new clothes, new pj's, books and colouring stuff.

My Nona came over bright and early on Christmas day and watched me open my gifts and then we headed over to Auntie Leasa and Uncle Pete's to have lunch with mummy's family. We also got to open more presents there and I got to check out all my cousins fun gifts too. Then we headed home again to get ready to have dinner at our house with daddy's family. I got to hang out with "my girls" before going to bed. On the 26th we headed over to my grandparents for dinner and open a few more gifts. I think I must have been really good cause I sure had lots of fun.

Then to bring the week of festivities to a close we headed up to my Auntie Kim's and Uncle Franks to go tobogganing and ring in the new year. We do this every year usually so mummy can get her snow fix but this year we already had lots of snow so this was just for sledding fun.

This year uncle Frank even got to join us so I had lots of people willing to pull me up the hill. We met up with some friends and then afterwards we headed back to the house for dinner and treats. Finally it was bedtime and I got to sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor while the adults welcomed in the new year (barely).

If that wasn't enough excitement, mummy, auntie Kim and I headed to Fabricland to pick up some material for new clothes and so that i could express how much fun the last couple weeks have been- All over the floor of Fabricland! Yup that's right I barfed and now I fear that I have a bug from all the excitement.

Oh well I think it was worth all of it and i look forward to next years celebrations.

Santa Train to Vancouver

On Saturday we bundled up in our winter coats and headed into Mission to board the Christmas train to Vancouver. It was a family event with 3 of my cousins, my two aunts, my grandparents and mum and dad.

I had a blast on the train singing Jingle bells, running up and down the stairs

and talking to Santa.

I even had fun once we got intoVancouver (though not sure if mummy did at lunch time when I was behaving like a brat- she even sat at a different table from me!) Anyways we wandered through the malls, went outside and saw some window displays, climbed up and down a chimney, milked a cow, sat on Santa's lap and ran up and down the escalators. I even got to help daddy pick out some new shoes (he wouldn't let mummy help). We had lots of fun and we even helped out the kids who wouldn't get gifts this year.

I think this might be something we can do every Christmas!

Trains, trains and more trains

Lately I really seem to enjoy trains and since I have asked Santa for trains for Christmas, when mummy saw a gingerbread kit that was a train she had to buy it for me. Last night when she got home we got to make it all up.

Of course it was really hard to wait for daddy to get everything ready and then there was some difficulty with small hands and small candies.

But finally I found my moment and snuck some candy into my mouth and it made this gingerbread assembly super fun. Of course it also made my bedtime super late cause I didn't just stop with sneaking one candy - I went for a whole bunch of SUGAR!!!!

Ta da and we are done. Now I can't wait to eat it!